Homeland Security stops all Canadian Drug Seizures

The Department of Homeland Security late yesterday agreed to stop confiscating prescription drugs mailed to American consumers from Canadian pharmacies. For nearly a year, the White House has been punishing seniors for filling their prescriptions at lower Canadian prices. Now it looks like the government is getting out of the business of harassing these consumers.

Word that the administration is ending U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s role in the controversial drug-seizure program came in an e-mail from a Homeland Security official to congressional staff late Monday. Since last November, some 40,000 Americans have had their prescriptions seized by Customs’ agents. It was discovered that federal agents began seizing drugs just two days after enrollment started for the Bush administration’s Medicare Part D program.

Only yesterday - after nearly a year of probing and prodding led in large part by Senator Nelson - Customs said in an e-mail to congressional staff it was halting its involvement in the seizure of Canadian drugs. The decision means the Food and Drug Administration resumes the job of overseeing drug imports from Canada, as it did prior to last November. Nelson said today he still wants the congressional probe by Sen. Collin’s committee to seek answers on why the administration started the medicine seizures in the first place.

Nelson’s previous letter to Sen. Collins seeking an investigation of the government’s program to confiscate consumers’ medicines is attached.

Thank you from Americans everywhere Senator Nelson! To a Senator that doesn't give up!

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